Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time. (“Peanuts”)
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
There is a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Philosophy is just a hobby. You can’t open a philosophy factory.
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice.
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
